Assessing global pain severity by self-report in clinical and health services research

Spine

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 3140-3151

  Von Korff, Michael ^a,d   Jensen, Mark P ^b   Karoly, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKACHE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; NOCICEPTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORK DISABILITY;

HUMANS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RESEARCH; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0034671462     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200012150-00009     Document Type: Review

References (106)

1. Cancer-related pain-II. Assessment with visual analogue scales
2. Reliability and concurrent validity of headache questionnaire data
3. Weak measurement vs strong statistics: An empirical critique of S. S. Stevens' prescriptions on statistics
4. Reliability and factor structure of the multidimensional pain inventory-Swedish language version (MPI-S)
5. Responsiveness of pain scales: A comparison of three pain intensity measures in chiropractic patients
6. Validating the SF-36 health survey questionnaire: New outcome measure for primary care
7. The affect system: Architecture and operating characteristics
8. A comparison of muscle relaxation and electromyogram biofeedback treatments for muscle contraction headache
9. A visual analogue thermometer for measuring pain intensity
10. The effect of number of rating scale categories on levels of interrater reliability: A Monte Carlo investigation
11. Pain assessment: Global use of the Brief Pain Inventory
12. Vicarious influences on pain-threshold determinations
13. The effect of past-injury on pain threshold and tolerance
14. Development of the Wisconsin Brief Pain Questionnaire to assess pain in cancer and other diseases
15. Outcome measures for low back pain research: A proposal for standardized use
16. Evaluation of the use of a pain diary in chronic cancer pain patients at home
17. Studies with pain rating scales
18. Comparison of verbal and visual analogue scales for measuring the intensity and unpleasantness of experimental pain
19. Pain in clinical and laboratory contexts
20. Measurement of characteristic pain intensity in field research
21. The epidemiology of chronic pain in the community
22. Demand characteristics underlying differential ratings of sensory versus affective components of pain
23. Sensory and affective components of pain: Separation and synthesis
24. Reliability of pain scales in the assessment of literate and illiterate patients with rheumatoid arthritis
25. Diurnal variation and individual differences in the perception of intractable pain
26. Transcutaneous electrical stimulation and acupuncture: Comparison of treatment for low-back pain
27. Measurement of pain: The psychometric properties of the Pain-O-Meter, a simple, inexpensive pain assessment tool that could change health care practices
28. Pain and psychological distress in patients undergoing autologous bone marrow transplantation
29. Myocardial infarction pain: Systematic description and analysis
30. Evaluation of multi-dimensional pain scales
31. Narcotic analgesia: Fentanyl reduces the intensity but not the unpleasantness of painful tooth pulp sensations
32. Ratio scales of sensory and affective verbal pain descriptors
33. Validity and sensitivity of ratio scales of sensory and affective verbal pain descriptors: Manipulation of affect by diazepam
34. Efficient pain assessment in clinical settings
35. A comparison of the Hopkins Pain Rating Instrument with standard visual analogue and verbal descriptor scales in patients with cancer pain
36. Headache Classification Committee of the International Headache Society Classification and diagnostic criteria for headache disorders, cranial neuralgias, and facial pain
37. Nitrous oxide analgesia: A psychophysical evaluation using verbal descriptor scaling
38. Validation of hourly pain intensity profiles with chronic pain patients
39. Assessing the subjective experience of pain: What do the scale scores of the McGill Pain Questionnaire measure?
40. The measurement of clinical pain intensity: A comparison of six methods
41. Assessing the affective component of chronic pain: Development of the Pain Discomfort Scale
42. The subjective experience of acute pain: An assessment of the utility of 10 indices
43. Increasing the reliability and validity of pain intensity measurement in chronic pain patients
44. Comparative reliability and validity of chronic pain intensity measures
45. The use of multiple-item scales for pain intensity measurement in chronic pain patients
46. What is the maximum number of levels needed in pain intensity measurement?
47. Comparison of fixed interval and visual analogue scales for rating chronic pain
48. Pain: Biopsychosocial mechanisms and management
49. EMG-assisted relaxation training in the management of chronic low back pain
50. The West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory (WHYMPI)
51. Measurement of pain: Patient preference does not confound pain measurement
52. The effects of experimenter gender on pain report in male and female subjects
53. Validating the MPI-DLV using experience sampling data
54. Neuropathic pain syndromes
55. Association of pain relief with drug side effects in postherpetic neuralgia: A single-dose study of clonidine, codeine, ibuprofen, and placebo
56. The McGill Pain Questionnaire
57. The McGill Pain Questionnaire: Major properties and scoring methods
58. The McGill Pain Questionnaire: Appraisal and current status
59. The challenge of pain
60. The dimensionality of verbal descriptors in Tursky's pain perception profile
61. Scaling the affective domain of pain: A study of the dimensionality of verbal descriptors
62. The low back
63. Chronic low back pain measurement with visual analogue scales in different settings
64. Methodological problems in the measurement of pain: A comparison between the verbal rating scale and the visual analogue scale
65. Validity of a verbally administered numeric rating scale to measure cancer pain intensity
66. Generic and disease-specific measures in assessing health status and quality of life
67. Relationship between the chronic pain grade and measures of physical, social and psychological well-being
68. Parametric statistics for evaluation of the visual analog scale
69. An analysis of factors that contribute to the efficacy of hypnotic analgesia
70. A psychophysical analysis of experiential factors that selectively influence the affective dimension of pain
71. A comparison of pain measurement characteristics of mechanical visual analogue and simple numerical rating scales
72. Combined use of experimental pain and visual analogue scales in providing standardized measurement of clinical pain
73. Sensory-affective relationships among different types of clinical and experimental pain
74. A simultaneous comparison of fentanyl's analgesic effects on experimental and clinical pain
75. The validation of visual analogue scales as ratio scale measures for chronic and experimental pain
76. A psychophysical analysis of morphine analgesia
77. Defining chronic pain for epidemiologic research: Assessing a subjective definition
78. A study of the natural history of back pain: I. Development of a reliable and sensitive measure of disability in low-back pain
79. Analysis of Likert-Scale data: A reinterpretation of Gregoire and Driver
80. Effects of different cognitive strategies on chronic pain experience
81. Reporting chronic pain episodes on health surveys
82. The accuracy of memory for pain: Not so bad most of the time
83. Graphic representation of pain
84. The use of pain scales in assessing the efficacy of analgesics in post-operative dental pain
85. An evaluation of length and end-phrase of visual analogue scales in dental pain
86. Pain measures
87. The Chronic Pain Grade questionnaire: Validation and reliability in postal research
88. Studies with different types of visual analog scales for measurement of pain
89. Biofeedback and a cognitive behavioral approach to treatment of myofascial pain dysfunction syndrome
90. Validity of an illness severity measure for headache in a population sample of migraine sufferers
91. Relationships between nurses' observations and patients' self-reports of pain
92. A pain slide rule
93. Comparison of group progressive-relaxation training and cognitive-behavioral group therapy for chronic low back pain
94. The development of a pain perception profile: A psychophysical approach
95. Evaluation of two time-specific back pain outcome measures
96. Memory for pain in epidemiologic research: Effects of depression on back pain recall
97. Problems in measuring pain by survey: The classification of chronic pain in field research
98. Graded chronic pain status: An epidemiologic evaluation
99. An epidemiologic comparison of pain complaints
100. Assessing headache severity: New directions
101. A randomized trial of a lay-led self-management group intervention for back pain patients in primary care
102. Grading the severity of chronic pain
103. The course of back pain in primary care
104. Practical problems in pain measurement
105. Cancer pain intensity measurement: Concurrent validity of three tools: Finger dynamometer, pain intensity number scale, visual analogue scale